Everything You Needed To Know About Greenbriar Presbyterian Church

Does Greenbriar Have a website.

http://greenbriarepc.org/church/

Worship and Sunday School Schedule

Sunday School 9:50 AM
Worship 11:00 AM
Wednesday Night Praise Service 7:00PM

Meeting schedule for youth group

Team Kids meets Sunday afternoon at 5:00 includes Teen youth

What Bible studies does Greenbriar offer

Various small groups offered throughout the year, various topics
Men’s Group Sunday nights 6:30, Bible Study various topics & Mission Work
20 Something Group Sunday Nights at 6:00 Various topics pertaining to 20-30 year olds
Women’s group meets first Monday of each Month, various Topics and Projects.

VBS Dates

Greenbriar has what we call a county wide VBS, it’s located in our community Ball Park and we invite anyone and everyone to attend.   Last year we ran more than 20 buses bringing in between 250 & 300 Children.  We have volunteers who come in from several other churches to assist in this project this year the County Wide VBS will run from July 11 – 15.  Here in Clay County we have a tremendous amount of poverty it’s a wonderful opportunity to show Gods love.

Things of interest about Greenbriar

• We run a mission project where we provide furniture to burn out victim or individuals   down on their luck trying to get a new start.  We’ve given away over 150 beds in the   past year.  It’s called the red Door Mission.
• We are currently sending missionaries to Haiti on a regular basis
• We have a young lady/Member on a mission trip in Central Asia for six weeks this summer
• We’re currently constructed a new 9000 sq foot Community Life Center.

History

Greenbriar Presbyterian Church was born in 1902 when the Presbyterian Board sent Rev. William Baxter in to begin work at Greenbriar.  In the beginning only Sunday School was held, which was carried fourth be the work of Rachael Allen Jones and A.D Hall.  In 1905 the first church was constructed which was known as A.D. Allen Memorial Church.  During the early years the church found itself without a pastor and depended on Sunday School workers and members of the community to fill the pulpit. 

The church eventually became known as Greenbriar Church, and continued to thrive for several years as a beacon in the community.   Then God delivered of all things a woman Methodist Pastor named Grace Wilson who was from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.   She first arrived as part of a mission team that conducted services around Clay County in the summer of 1919.

After returning back to Michigan Miss Wilson heart was burdened by the call of the Appalachian Mountains and the people who she’d come to know and love, she couldn’t shake the feeling that Greenbriar is where God wanted her to be.   She knew the citizens of Greenbriar had a thirst for God and His Word.

In 1920 Pastor Grace Wilson returned to Greenbriar where she remained in service to the lord for the next 45 years.  While in service here in the mountain she played a vital role in the forming of three other Presbyterian Churches, while adding onto the existing church and built the Parish Hall today known as the Community building.

In 1965 Miss Wilson retired and Greenbriar Presbyterian was joined with a local Methodist church in a Yoked fielded arrangement with the reverend Merritt Don Penner pasturing both churches.  This arrangement continued until 1982 when Preacher Penner moved away. 

From 1882 until 1990 Various Pastors came and went through Greenbriar but the congregation remained strong and healthy, in 1990 Maurice Hibbard an ordained Presbyterian pastor who’d grown up in the church, returned to Greenbriar after retiring as a military chaplain Reverend Hibbard pastured the congregation for the next several years, under Reverend Hibbard’s care the old original Church was torn down and the new Church was constructed.  This church was paid for mostly by a few donations and the Catering Briars (women of the church).

In 2001 Pastor Tim Rogers a College student begin as temporary pulpit supply while Greenbriar searched for a new minister, he and his wife Teah eventually moved into the manse after he graduated from college.  Tim Rogers is now an ordained Presbyterian Pastor who still leads the congregation of about 120  members today.

In 2009 the Congregation at Greenbriar felt the Presbyterian Church USA’s core beliefs had moved so far away from the Biblical truths which had been taught for years, that if the church was to remain viable they could no longer be associated with the Presbyterian Church USA.  In 2010, through Gods miraculous guidance and grace, Greenbriar requested, and was dismissed with its Property to become part of the Southeast Presbytery of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. 

Greenbriar is blessed to be a part of such a wonderful presbytery and is excited to begin a new chapter in the life of the church.

Today Greenbriar’s members are fifth and sixth generation descendants of the  founding members who stated the church, they continue to carry on the work of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ which was started more than 100 years ago.